Hello, here's the latest edition of Navigator! Sign up to get it in your inboxes every other Saturday. This week's has a really nice round-up of links + recommendations from CityLab staffers and readers:
Are you a parent in a city? Help us out with a new reporting project about...what cities are doing re: early childhood development.
Hi, we mapped a ICE dataset that shows the contracts with local governments to detain immigrants as of November 2017. Fun facts: they're everywhere—although not all are active. They're in more republican counties, but also diverse, democratic counties help detain large numbers of immigrants. These contracts are completely voluntary, and usually local governments rent out jail beds to ICE for $$$. The standards at a lot of these jails are BAD. A government watchdog report quoted ICE officials saying that the mandated inspections were "useless."
"It hurts to laugh, but then, there’s not much to laugh about. It even hurts to writhe in pain, and of that, there is plenty.
In a cruel twist to the lyrics of the Beyoncé song, I woke up like this, one day after enduring D.C.’s first SweatCon rally—a “sweat crawl” through a trio of boutique fitness studios in Washington, D.C."
Hello, happy June! CityLab's Navigator newsletter, which I curate, should have dropped in your inboxes! This edition contains paper cities, pink-clad Korean aunties who give out yogurt, surf NIMBYism, queer baseball babes, food trucks, brutalist garden gnomes, and much much more. Sign to receive it every other Saturday by clicking on the link inside.
Hello, we mapped the density and "border zone" where Customs and Border Protection officers have extended search and seizure powers. We found that 65.3 percent of the U.S. population lives within this zone, which contains all of Michigan, all of Florida, and more than half of Ohio and Pennsylvania. A lotta major cities too.
CBP also has the authority to profile based on race and ethnicity in this zone, which is striking because 72 percent of the U.S. minority population and 75 percent of the Hispanic population live in this zone.
It's the 50th anniversary of the Fair Housing Act, the landmark civil rights legislation in the U.S. passed to undo the effects of intentional, government backed segregation.
Check out mine and Be Mock's conversation with our friends at NPR code switch:
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A city that does not unite, that is not for all, that is not public.
Tanvi Misra shared a link.
In Baltimore, it was a secret spy plane. In Oakland, there was a multifaceted surveillance system that included license plate readers. In New Orleans, it's a predictive policing algorithm that draws up lists of potential offenders. All of this happened in secret; All if this is largely unregulated.
That's why digital and civil rights organizations are pushing for local ordinances that vet surveillance equipment/tools acquired by the police.
Tanvi Misra shared a link.
Brentin Mock went to Dekalb County, Georgia to report out this piece—the first in a series about the burgeoning cityhood movement in the state.
Inequality, served up 3 ways by the folks over at Esri
